RESUMEN
During the 2012 Hajj season, the risk of acquisition of Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage in a cohort of French pilgrims was 22.8%, and was statistically associated with the acquisition of viral respiratory pathogens (p 0.03). The carriage of S. aureus belonging to the emerging clonal complex 398 significantly increased following the pilgrimage (p < 0.05).
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Portador Sano/epidemiología , Aglomeración , Mucosa Nasal/microbiología , Infecciones Estafilocócicas/epidemiología , Staphylococcus aureus/aislamiento & purificación , Adulto , Anciano , Estudios de Cohortes , Femenino , Francia , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Religión , Arabia Saudita , Infecciones Estafilocócicas/transmisión , ViajeRESUMEN
In preparation for Hajj 2013, 360 French pilgrims were interviewed regarding their knowledge about Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). Respondents were aged 2085 years, male-female ratio was 1.05:1;64.7% were aware of the MERS situation in Saudi Arabia; 35.3% knew about the Saudi Ministry of Health recommendations for at-risk pilgrims to postpone participation in the 2013 Hajj. None of 179 at-risk individuals(49.9%) decided to cancel their Hajj participation even after advice during consultation.
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Infecciones por Coronavirus/prevención & control , Conocimientos, Actitudes y Práctica en Salud , Islamismo , Infecciones del Sistema Respiratorio/prevención & control , Viaje , Adulto , Anciano , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Coronavirus , Infecciones por Coronavirus/epidemiología , Infecciones por Coronavirus/transmisión , Femenino , Francia , Encuestas Epidemiológicas , Humanos , Entrevistas como Asunto , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Medio Oriente , Vigilancia en Salud Pública , Infecciones del Sistema Respiratorio/epidemiología , Infecciones del Sistema Respiratorio/transmisión , Arabia Saudita , Adulto JovenRESUMEN
A cohort of 154 French Hajj pilgrims participating in the 2012 Hajj were systematically sampled with nasal swabs prior to returning to France, and screened for the novel HCoV-EMC coronavirus by two real-time RT-PCR assays. Despite a high rate of respiratory symptoms (83.4%), including 41.0% influenza-like illness, no case of HCoV-EMC infection was detected. Despite the fact that zoonotic transmission was suspected in the first few cases, a recent family cluster in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia suggests that the virus might show at least limited spread from person to person, which justifies continuing epidemiological surveillance.
